E-Library: History Resources

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America's Newspapers
America's Newspapers allows you to search current and archived local, state, regional and national full-text articles on issues, events, business, health, education, people, government, sports and more with nearly 1,000 newspapers, newswires, news videos, and web-only content including the Atlanta Journal Constitution (1985-Current), Augusta Chronicle (1994-Current), Marietta Daily Journal (10/29/98-Current), and USA Today(7/1/87-Current).

Digital Library of Georgia
Digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, etc., of Georgia history and culture. Part of GALILEO.

Georgia Aerial Photographs
Access to aerial photographs of selected counties in the State of Georgia. Part of GALILEO. More information »

Heritage Quest
Resource for census data, family records, and local histories. This collection assembles U.S. federal census, family genealogies and local histories, tax lists, city directories, land and probate records, birth, marriage and death records. Part of GALILEO. More information »

Salem History
This resource provides online access to the following titles:

• Encyclopedia of American Immigration
• Decades
  • The Twenties in America
  • The Thirties in America
  • The Forties in America
  • The Fifties in America
  • The Sixties in America
  • The Seventies in America
  • The Eighties in America
• Defining Documents in American History
  • Exploration & Colonial America (1492-1755)
  • The American Revolution (1754-1805)
• Great Athletes
• Great Lives from History
  • Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventions
  • Incredibly Wealthy
  • Jewish Americans
  • African Americans
• Milestone Documents
  • African American History
  • American Leaders
  • World History
• Weapons & Warfare

U.S. History in Context
Provides access to over 4,000 historical (primary) documents, articles from more than 30 reference titles, and over 110 full-text journals covering themes, events, individuals and periods in U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to the present.

Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Voyages is the result of the African Origins Project, a scholar-public collaborative endeavor to trace the geographic origins of Africans transported in the transatlantic slave trade. The database provides information on almost 35,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.